Projects and Opportunities

Members of our group have fantastic opportunities to collaborate with, and even obtain joint PhD degrees with leading researchers and institutes around the world. We have joint grants with fantastic researchers, and students working with us can freely visit these institutes for extended durations for collaboration and exposure. Our projects and other opportunities include:

• Indo-German grant: Swarm Intelligence Systems. Dr. John Augustine and Dr. Alexander Skopalik (now with Christian Scheideler).

• Matrix Grant: Lower Bounds in Distributed Computing. Dr. John Augustine.

• Venky Harinarayanan and Anand Rajaraman Chair Professorship. Dr. David Peleg (recipient) and Dr. John Augustine (host).

• VAJRA visiting faculty scheme. Dr. Gopal Pandurangan (recipient) and Dr. John Augustine (host).

• Indo-French grant: Computing on Encrypted Data. Dr. Shweta Agrawal, Dr. Benoit Libert and Dr. Damien Stehle.

• Swarnajayanti fellowship: Post Quantum Cryptography: Challenges, Opportunities and Beyond. Dr. Shweta Agrawal.

• Indo-Israel grant: Efficiency of Secure Computation: Dr. Shweta Agrawal with Prof. Yuval Ishai, Prof. Eyal Kushilevitz and Prof. Alon Rosen on the Israeli side and Prof. Manoj Prabhakaran and Prof. Vinod Prabhakaran on the Indian side.

• National Blockchain Project Dr. Shweta Agrawal, Prof. Manindra Agrawal and Prof. Sandeep Shukla.

• Microsoft Virtual Centre in Cryptography Dr. Shweta Agrawal, Dr. Satya Lokam and Dr. Nishanth Chandran.

• Uchchatar Avishkar Yojana: Coherent one way quantum key distribution Dr. Shweta Agrawal, Dr. Anil Prabhakar, Dr. Prabha Mandayam and Dr. Andrew Thangaraj.

• Joint degree programs: IIT Madras has joint degree programs with these excellent universities around the world. If you'd like to work in lattice based cryptography, you can consider a joint Ph.D. with us and Dr. Divesh Aggarwal at the National University of Singapore.

• The prime minister research fellowship offers a lucrative opportunity for graduate students pursuing research at IIT Madras! Here are more details.